C1 Advanced - Open Cloze Exercises

Certificate in Advanced English (CAE)

The second part of the Reading and Use of English paper in the C1 Advanced Examination is open cloze, in which you use one word to fill each space in a short text.

Example Question

3. You're ________ from perfect, Jon. Only last year, you lost those files, remember?

Open Cloze Exercise 1
Exercise Number: CAE018 | Walkthrough Video

Open Cloze Exercise 2
Exercise Number: CAE019 | Walkthrough Video

Open Cloze Exercise 3
Exercise Number: CAE020 | Walkthrough Video

Exam Tip!

Read the whole sentence or the whole text. Often the answer required for the space is dependent on a word or reference many words before or after it. Look at this example:

Kathy spent the afternoon looking for the phone and finally John admitted taking it because he hadn't known that it was ______.

The answer is "HERS" but you wouldn't know that unless you'd read the name that appears TWENTY-ONE words before the gap!

Open Cloze Exercise 4
Exercise Number: CAE021 | Walkthrough Video

Open Cloze Exercise 5
Exercise Number: CAE022 | Walkthrough Video

Open Cloze Exercise 6
Exercise Number: CAE023 | Walkthrough Video

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Open Cloze Exercise 7
Exercise Number: CAE024 | Walkthrough Video

Open Cloze Exercise 8
Exercise Number: CAE025

Open Cloze Exercise 9
Exercise Number: CAE026

Exam Tip!

Keep a database of difficult open cloze questions. This could be on your computer or in a notebook. You might list them like this:

put it IN order (to put something in order)
licked ITS paw (pronoun for objects/animals)
set UP a company (phrasal verb 'set up', to establish, create)

Open Cloze Exercise 10
Exercise Number: CAE027

Open Cloze Exercise 11
Exercise Number: CAE028

Open Cloze Exercise 12
Exercise Number: CAE029

Open Cloze Exercise 13
Exercise Number: CAE030

Open Cloze Exercise 14
Exercise Number: CAE031

Open Cloze Exercise 15
Exercise Number: CAE032

Open Cloze Exercise 16
Exercise Number: CAE033

Open Cloze Exercise 17
Exercise Number: CAE060

Open Cloze Exercise 18
Exercise Number: CAE061

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